The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1858, Page 4

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The Kansas Investigating Committee of the House of Representatives met last evening, and adopted a report expressive of the views of the majority, setting forth, among other th'ngs, that as the au- thority was legally conferred upon the delegates to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention to frame & constitution, those who had an opportunity to vote upon the question of the rejection or acceptance of that instrument, but who declined to exercise that privilege, are debarred from finding fault with the action of the Convention. The report demolishes the objections put forth by th: opponents of the ad- ministration to the Lecompten constitution, and urges the speedy admission of Kansas into the Union as best means of pacifying the country, and putting un end to the agitation which prevails, and which the republicans and their allies seek to prolong indefinitely. As soon as the minority are prepared the reports will be submitted to the House. Inthe Senate yesterday the debate on the bill providing for the admission of Kans us was continued by Messr&. Seward, of New York, and Thomson, of | New Jersey, the latter supporting the bill under conmderation. In the House the bill from the Senate autborizing the President to reinstate naval officers who have been victimized by the Naval Retiring Board, was passed by a major.ty of seventy-one. There was a perfect jubilee among the naval officers in Washington last night over this result, so impor- tant to their interests. But little of importance transpired in the State Senate yesterday. In executive session, however, intense interest was created by the discussion of the «wovernor’s harbor master appointments. Finally the Governor's nominees, Messrs. Stewart, Dodge, Coffin and Barker were confirmed, the republicans and Americans uniting to effect that object. In the Assembly the committee on commerce made a re- port stating that o fair competition is not allowed st Castle Garden in the sale of emi <rant passenger tickets, and a recommendation pr viding for the appointment of a committee to thoroughly examiue into the subject was adopted. The Attorney Gen- eral reported that, in his opinion, a member of Assembly need not be a resident of the district from which he is elected. This will probably settle the Dolan and Seely contested case in favor of the lat- ter, who now represents the fourth district of this city. The transactions of the Board of Education last evening were important. The report of the Finance Committee, recommending that $30,437 be reserved and set apart to meet the amount overure vn in 1657, and tbat of the $1,126,013 the remainder be appro- priated to defray the various expenses of the year, was adopted. Reports of the Finance Committee in favor of appropriating $45,000 for the salaries of teachers and janitors, $25,000 for support of evening schools, $1,000 for repairs to the Free Academy, $9,125 for alterations aud repairs in ward achools, and $1,545 for other purposes, were adopted. In ad dition to the above sums, $4,600 was specially »ppro- priated to defray the expense of repairing and alter- ing Ward Bchoo! No. 44, recently damaged by fire. In the Gourt of Sessions yesterday but little busi ness was done. J. Thompson, a youth of seventeen, found concealed in a blacksmith’s ehop with bur giars’ tools on his person, and charged with an attempt at burglary, was acquitted on the gsound that the prosecution had not proved that the doors were locked, and on his own statement that he merely’ went in there to sleep. John Urwin, sharged with stealing « horse, was found guilty and sentenced to two years in the State prison. Sarah Kinner, charged with stealing the farnitare of two tooms which she hired from Mrs. Eliza Schmidt, was acquitted. The accused stated that she had bought the furniture and had a right to take it away, and proved that she had negotiated for the purchase of one of the articles. The examination in the case of Smith and Fitz- patrick, charged with embeazling funds fom the Comptsoller's office, was continued but a short time yesterday befare the Recorder. Only two witnesses were examined, and the only feature was an attempt of counsel for the accused to show that the prosecn- tion was got up for the purpose of reaching Mr. Dev- Lin and Mayor Wood, rather Mhan the accused. The Excise Commissioners met again yesterday. Present, Messrs. Kerr, Haskett and Holmes. After waiting a few minutes, however, and finding that no business would come before them, the Board ad journed until the 18th af May next. We understand that Commissioner Holmes, as counsel of the Board, has commenced proceedings against several parties for the infraction of the Excise law, and that every effort will be made to facilitate the arrival of the case at the court of last resort, in order that the va- lidity of the law may be fully and fiza’'y tested. The Commissioners of Emigratfon met yesterday and passed 4 resolution in reference to the long pending dirpute between themselves ond the Ten Governors, The emigration wp tothe | inst. was 4,757, being 9 decrease of 5,454 a8 compared with ‘the erm ration of last year. The dress of Miss Seral 8. Lewis,a teacher in a primary school, at No. 233 West Eighteenth street, «.aght fire yesterday, and before the flamos could be extinguished the anfortunate young lady received tuck injary Vhat ber life ie despaired of. The occur. renee created a wild commotion among the children Of the school and t/:c inhabitante of the neighbor. ood, bat a0 accident was occasioned by it. The democracy of Connecticut met in convention at New Haven yesterday and vominated James T Pratt for Governvr, John Cotton Smith for Lieutena» Governor, F, for Compiroticr. Resolutions beartily endorsing the policy of Pregdent Buchanan were adopted. ‘The telegraph reports the destraction by fire on Monday last of the steamer Eliza Battle, near De mopolis, Alabama, together with the loss of between thirty and forty lives, and more than one thousand | bales of cotton. Tue letter of our Havana correspondent, publish- ed clsewhere, contains news from that city to the 25th ult. The sugar market was rather active—stock, old and new, ninety thousand boxes. The tobacco crop promised an average yield, but no business was doing owing to the high prices demanded by plant- ers. Exchange and freights were duil. The authori- ties had seized cargo ot four hundred and fifty Africans, just arrived. Santa Anna’s arrival was daily looked for. We have news from St. Thomas to the 17th of February. Our correspondent states that the want of confidence engendered by the American and Eu- ropean money crisis had prostrated trade wom pletely. The old established American house of Ridgway, Ruhl & Co., had suspended payment. The managing partner, John E. Ruhl, was imprisoned, under an old colonial burgher law, for the non-pay- ment of a bill of exchange for $6,000, accepted by the house previous to its temporary embarrassment. Owing to the exertions of the United Btates Cong il he was, however, soon released. The harbor was full of vessels; but no freights were to be had. Yellow fever bad appeared unusually early. Six deaths oc- curred from it in seven days, and thirty-five persons lay ill at last report. ‘The receipts of beef cattle at the various mar- kets in this city during the past week amounted to 2,070 kead, a decrease of 57 head as compared with the receipts of the week previous. A shert supply bad been anticipated Ly dealers, consequently the demand was very brisk, and prices advanced fully half a cent per pound, the rates ranging from 8c. to llfe., while extra brought a trifle over the last figures. Cows and calves and veal calves were in good supply at $25 a $65 for the former, and 4}c. a Te. for the latter. Sheep and lambs were in good de- mand at $3. $7 each, according to quality. The demand for hogs was moderate at85}c. a 5c. ‘The cotton market yesterday was some leas buoyant: owing to increased receipts at Southern ports and apathy of purchasers. Before and subsequent to Change the sales embraced about 1,500 bales, closing with less spirit, Without quotable change in prices. The deficiency in the receipts at the ports, compared with the same period Inst year, has become reduced to 426,000 bales. The de- creass in exports, compared with last year, are 19,000 leas to Great Britain, 34,000 to France, aud to other foreign ports 52,000—giving a total decrease of 62,000 bales. The higher grades of shipping brands of flour contioued quite firm, while common grades were unchanged and in moderate de. mand. Southera flour of the better class of brands was in fair request ror export to the West Indies, Wheat ‘was firm, with sales of common white Southern at $1 33; Aud 1,000 busbels choice white North Carolina, grown by Mr. Bergwynne, was sold at $150 for city milling. Corn Was easier and more active, with free sales at 65¢. a 87c. for yellow and white, with a smal! lot of tho lattor at 68, Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $16 45 a $16 £0, and a small lot reported at $16 70; while prime was at $13 120$13 25. Sugars were active, and the sales embraced about 1,660 hhds., included in which were about SCO New Orleans, sold by auction, all at the rates given in another column. Freight engagements were movlerste, while rates were without change of moment. The Lecompton Constitution—The Duty of Congress. The bill for the edmission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution is now fairly before the Senate, in connection with the new State of Minnesota; and it must now be manifest to every dispassionate mind that it is the first duty of the Senate and of the House to pass this measure as speedily as possible. The conserva- tive masses of the people of all sections are anxious for peace; and our commercial and business classes of all kinds desire above al) things that this embarrassing sectional agitation about Kansas and niggers shall be brought to an end. The admission of Kansas under the Lecomp- ton constitution, conjointly with the admission of Minnesota, will settle the question. Mr. Senator Pugh, of Ohio, has given notice c! an amendment to the effect that the people of Kansas may alter or abolish their form of gov- ernment in such manner as they may think proper, so that it be republican and in accord- ance with the constitution of the United States. The object of this proviso is to remove what- ever objections may exist to that provision of th Lecompton constitutional schedule which pre cludes any amendment of said constitution until the year 1864. But, elthough the President in his Kansas message has suggested some such proviso, there is in reality no necessity for it, It can give no power to the people of Kansas which they do not already poesess, and the sim- ple act of admission under the Lecompton pro gramme can take no right of “ popular sove- reignty” away. Upon its face the 1864 clause in the Lecompton schedule is a dead letter ; for if the Convention could interdict any amend- ment of their constitution till the year 1864, what was to prevent them from extending their interdict to the year 1874, "84, or "941 Next, in regard to the extensive catalogue of enormous election frauds, swindling tricks, for- geries and perjuries charged against John Cal- houn and his associates in the work of this Le- compton constitution. Admit them all, and the paramount facts still remain that his conven- tiom waa a legal body, legally «lected by legal voters, poseceved of the legal authority to form @ State constitution, and that its ratification “ with slavery,” on the 21st December, was the legal consummation of the work. Our attention is next called to the remarkable indecision of John Calhoun in reference to the organic State Legislatum under the Lecomptoa pro- gramme. Some of the Southern ultres eay that on an appeal from the President he has agreed to save the administration and its party in the North by giving the said Legislature to the free State party; while, on the other hand, our black republican wiseacres declare that in spite of the discovery of the Delaware Crossing election returns in the candle box under the wood pile, and in spite of the sworn testimony of the election judges in some other oases, Cal- houn will still decree « pro-slavery Legislature in order to get himself elected to the United States Senate. But what bas afl this to do with the question before Congress, which is the admission of Kan- sas under the Lecompton constitution? The State Legislature of Kansas is certainly an affair beyond the jerietiction of Congress. Lut supposing that Calhoun, with the admisston of Kanens, should give bis certificates of election in behalf of @ pro-slavery Legislature, and that he should thus secure an election to the United States Senate, how long would he remain there if the facts in the case be as they are repre- sented? With his admission into the Senate the legality of bis election would certainly and properly come before that body, and the quee- tion wonld inevitably involve a full investiga- tion of all the facte in the case. Is it likely that he or hie partisans would dare to confront the comsequences if he and they be the guilty election forgers and swindlers they are represented to be by his enemies? Surely not. At all events, his decision, pro- aus, Jr, for Secretary of Bia, slavery or no elavery, in reference to the op NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1868 | eanic State Legislature, has nothing whatever ; to do with the question before Congress. | Admit Kansas as a sovereign State ander the | Lecompton constitution, and all these alleged | clection frauds, forgeries and ewindlee, aud all this trouble awong the sectional ultras regard- ing Calhoun’s organization of the Kansas State Legislature will be speedily and quietly settled ny the people of Kansas themselves; and before the expiration of six months Kansas, with the consent of all sections, wil) be in full blast as a tree State. On the other hand, let this Lecomp- ton constitution be defeated, and from the dis union alternatives adopted by the Leyialatures and Conventions of Georgia, Alabama, Texas and other Southern States, this slavery agita- tion may be re-opened in a shape which will de- range and seriously damage the practical busi- ness interests of the whole country for many years to come. It is all important to the peace and prosperity of tke country that this Kansas imbroglio be settled without further delay. What the conse- quencee may be to this party or that party from the adeption of the Lecompton constitutioa, we do not know and we do not care. We care no- thing for parties, or factions, or sections, or administrations, in view of the paramount in- terests of the peace of the Union and the great commercial and other business interests of the whole country. Forrian Missions ror Eprrors.—Several of our cotemporaries, who appear to be deeply in- terested in our affairs, have announced that the sdministration intend to appoint, in a very short time, Mr. James Gordon Bennett, as they call him, the editor of this paper, to the mis sion to Austria, During the administration of Pierce similar notices were published in the papers in relation to the missions to France and England. Now, in reference to this mat- ter, we may be permitted to have a word to say. The President of the United States need not trouble himself so far as to offer the mission to Austria to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, as some of the newspapers say he intends to do. Mr. James Gordon Bennett would never accept a mission to which it had been supposed tbat the calibre of Chevalier Webb or of financier Bel- mont had been equal. Neither would he accept the mission to France or England, or any other mission. He has been to Europe five times ort missions to France, Engiand, Germany, Italy and other parts, being appointed thereto and paid by the people of the Uniced States, through his own exertions. On those missions he has probably collected much more information and effected much more goed for the people of thie country than any half dozen of the present ministers abroad. He bas had quite enough of foreign missions, and thinks that there is only one post in the government which he would now accept. That is the office of Secretary of State, now so worthily filled by that sound old statesman, General Cass. We do not wish to disturb his management of foreign affairs, now 80 well administered, and we hope that General Cass will remain at his post during President Buchanan's administration; but if ever the office should become vacant we might be in- duced to aecept it in order to have a chonce to show to England, France and Spain how we would conduct negotiations with Mexico, Cuba and Central America. Six months after our ap- pointment as Secretary of State we would give Palmerston, Louis Napoleon and Queen Isa- bella enough to think of, so that they would never again interfere in American affairs in any part of the continent. Conrrssions or THE Lopsy—Venaniry or | Newsrarers.—According to reliable accounts | from Washington it appears that, before the re- port of the Investigating Committee has beeu published, some evidence has transpired which ineulpates certain journals of New York in the tariff corruption under circumstances of av | amusing character. Several journals, such as the Journal of Commerce, the Times and the Tri- bune, have been for some time past endeavoring to break the forces und moral effect of this evi- dence by preliminary confessions, sometimes of one character, and sometimes of another. A short while ago the Journal ef Commerce confessed money had been paid ovt of the Middlesex cor- ruption fund to one of its employés, but stated that the Journal itself was innocent of venafity. It did not state the amount paid. More lately the Tribune also comes to the confessional, and while acknowledging its sins to a certain ex- tent, adds that the Journal of Commerce recvived | $8,000. It goes further, and confesses the. Mat- teson—the same man who received the $1,000 | through the hands of Greeley from the Des | Moines Navigation Company—proposed that a | large portion of the corruption fund should be appropriated to put the Tribune and Times in the | right direction, as he supposed their issues | reached the rural districts, But we shall know | something more of the extent of the negotia- | tion between the Middlesex Company and their | agents and these two journals when we receive | a copy of the report of the committee and of the evidencé taken before it. According to | present developements, only $58,000 have been accounted for out of the whole $87,000, It is likely that the account may be balanced before | the investigation closes. What a picture of newspaper and lobby ve- nality is presented by the confessions of these three immaculate journals! For nearly fifteen | yeare they have been endeavoring to circulate | the falsehood both in this and in foreign coun- tries that the Hera alone of all the New York press was evpported by venal practices. They | have repeated this constantly, and this without | fact or a shadow of evidence or even proba- | bility to sustain it. Now, here they are, the three conspirators against the good repatation of their cotemporary, caught like thieves with the property in their possession, while rushing through the crowd and bawling: Stop thief! Briery axp Corrcrtion at Avnaxny.—In the matter of electing Speakers our little law makers at Albany are notorious imitators, in a emall way, of the House of Representatives at Washingtow. It also appears that thers are some among our Albany Solons who are ambi- tious of the bribery aud corruption notoriety of Matteson & Co, It is charged, for example, that one of our State Senators, in the matter of the Brooklyn bocal assessment bill, has been stimulated to work like a beaver for that mea- sare in consideration of the enug little corrap tion subsidy of ten thousand dollars. The charge, too, ie made ina shape so positive that it must command an inquiry. By all means, therefore, let our law makers at Albany imitate the doings of Congress in another thing, and that is in a special investigating committee or two upon bribery amd corruption. Tt ie high time. Perbaps our tax payers willdiscever, by and by, that they have been fleeced as badly by the spoils jobbers at Albany ax by the official vuiteres and their outside confederates of this metropolis. Here, st Washington and at Al- bany epoliations and investigutions promixe to bo, for an indefinite period, the standing orders of the day. Thr Defeat of the Army Batb-its Cause and its Consequences. We publish im another part of the paper to- day a full history of the late debate on the Army bill in the Senate of the United States, a debate which occupied that body for nearly a mentb, and terminated at length in the rojec- tion of the mensure. We give this comprehen- rive sketch of it because we doubt whether the question has, up to this time, reccived the amount of public attention which its merits re- quire, In its character, ae well as its results, that de- bate was one of the most extraordinary and im- portant which has taken place in the Senate chamber for many years. There is ro question to which we can refer more vitally affecting the existence of the authority of the federal govern- ment and the maintenance of the Union. Shall the Exccutive be granted sufficient power to put down insurrection or shall he not? That is the simple question, stripped of all the entangle- mente and collateral issues with which it was involved by the opposition. The debate was extraordinary in its charac- ter, we say, becanse men of the most opposite political opinions were found in league against 8 wise and indispensable measure of the admin- istration, and men equally at variance upon all other questions of public import were found act- ing in combination on the side of the govern- ment. For instance, we saw Wm. H. Seward, of New York, and Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, strenuously supporting the bill; and John P. Hale, of New Hampehire, and Robert Toombs, of Georgia, running shoulder to shoulder againet it. Important in its results, because for the first time since the organization of the government it beeame necessary for the Presi- dent to appeal to Congress for an increase of the army to put down rebellion, either in a ter- ritory or State of the Union; and that appeal bas been refused by an unholy alliance of men of all parties, animated, we have to assume, by a factious spirit of opposition to the adminis- tration, if no worse motives can be attributed to them. , Rebellion, open rebellion, avowed alike by the Executive and the Legislature of Utah, existe in that Territory. A small and insufi- cient force of United States troops is at this moment locked up in the frost-bound fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains, God alone knows with what prospect of escaping safely there- from. A foul and abominable sect, odious to all Christian minds, are in arme against the au- thority of this government, within the natural fortifications of the “canons” which protect Salt Lake City. Hordes of hostile Indians hover upon the fronticrs of our territories; some of them, we have reason to believe, in league with the Mormons to fall pon the little hand- ful of our soldiers stationed at Fort Bridger when the spring opens the campaign. In this emergency the President asks for an increase of some four or five thousand men to the regular army; and a majority of the Senate of the United States—after many contemptible shifts, shufiings, factious comments and child- ish objectioas—refuse to .ccede to his just re- quest. The gallant troops who are now in Utah may he sacrificed. Rebellion may stalk abroad unchecked. A pestilential community, whose existence within the jurisdiction of our govern- ment isa reproach, may flaunt their unnatural doctrines in our faces with impunity, and invest cur Christian society with their fou! practices, for all these thirty-five honorable Senators who voted against the Army bill care. But if these things, or auy of them, should come to pass, the responsibility will assuredly reet upon their choulders. Even now, by op- posing an increase of the army to suppress the Mormon rebedlion, they are indirectly proclaim- ing in favor of it, and giving in their adhe- rence to the detestable doctrines of Brigham Young and his confederates. And what are the pretexts upon which the bill was opposed ? Te ultra republicans of the North and West oppored it on the ground that the increase of the army was demanded for the purpose of forcing Kansas into submission to the slave power. Who believes it? The ultra Southern men revisted it--or pretended to—on the prin- ciple that a large standing army was dangerous to liberty, The army as at present constituted: they say, amounts to nearly eighteen thousand men, while the increase asked for would raise the amount to twenty-two thousand. A regu- lar army of twenty-two thousadd men, spread over nearly an entire continent, with a popula- tion of nearly thirty millions, and the largest frontier of any country in the world, danger- ous to the liberty of aconivéeration of States, each one of which maintains iis own militia re- gularly enrolled and officered for the defence of its own rights! Tow absurd the idea. How shallow the pretext upon which to base au ob- jection to adding four or five thousand men to the army at a time when rebellion is rife in one of our Territories! We euspect that the President will make the | defeat of the Army bill the subject of a special meseage to Congress, Considering the impor- tance of the subject, it would be quite proper that he should do so. Ifit is to be admitted that the Executive of the nation ehall not re- ceive assistance from tho Legislature to crush out rebellion within our boundaries, we do not know what preposterous idea will next receive favor. If Mr. Buchanan should send « mestage to Congress on thie subject, it will afford him an exceHent opportunity of augmenting his etrength, and investing himeelf with tenfold power against the wily machinations of his ene mies. His request in thie case is just and jadi- cious, and one in which the people will un- questtionably sustain him. Orry Apvenristxe.—One of the branches of the Common Council hae edopted a resolution ordering the publication of the proceedings of the Corporation in the Henann and several other daily journals, “at the usual advertising rates.” If the Common Council means the usual advertising rates of the evening journals, or the Sunday papers, which now publish the proceedings, they are not our rates. These journals, having little or no circulation, are glad to get the city advertisements at any price to fill up their vacant spaces. Not so with us, The Corporation advertisements can only be published in the Herarn at the usual adver- tising charges of the Henan office. And why? Because the daily circulation of the New York Heratp at this moment i# greater than the combined issue of all the morning journals put together, We refer particularly to the 7rbune, Times, Courier and Enquirer, Express, and Journet of Commerce, These five newspapers are the principal advertising journals of the city. The circulation of these journals altegether does not reach fifty thousand copies daily; while, by the eworn statements placed before the Post Office Department, the cirenlation of the Hsratp for the last year has averaged sixty-two thousand copies per day. The members of the Common Couneil are not such noodles a8 to auppose that the Hrratp, with a greater daily circulation than all the other journals above named together, cam ad- vertise at the same rates that are charged by those papers separately; yet our prices, in com- parison to the superiority of our circulation, are fifty per cent lower than those charged by the Tribune, Times, Journa’ of Commerce, Courier and Express. Tus Rwtations or Praxce m Evrors.—it seems that the situation of France is becoming as alarming ubroad as at home. Our Paris let- ter, published on Wednesday, draws a fearfut picture of the state of things in the French ca- pital; it seems that the insecurity of the Empe- ror’s life is so notorious that the British ambas- sador declined to entertain his majesty unless he filled the embassy with gendarmes for four days previously, and had hundreds of police scattered through the building during the févc, in the disguise of servants. Abroad, Switzerland, Spain and Italy are for the present, considered as nations, quiet and friendly enough. Switzerland owes France a debt of gratitude which at present induces it to suffer the French police to shoot over their ter- ritory. Italy is the birth place and home of nearly all the assassins who are trying to kill the Emperor; though they leave it sometime be- fore they commence operations. But, further north, the position of affairs is in no such agree- able state. Belgium is just now full of a prosecution for libel which has been instituted against Mr. Louis Labarre, the editor of the Drapeau, who, in the course of an article on the late attempt to assassinate the Emperor, observed that the crime was infinitely less henious than the coup d'état of December. For thisthe government of Belgium has directed prosecutions to be institu- ted against the paper and the editor; and not only have the reporters been warned by the judge not to venture upon any comments “or impru- dent notes,” but the lawyers engaged have likewise been notified that they will not be suf- fered to speak at all if they venture upon an al- lusion “to the events of 1851 and 1852.” What sort of defence the prisoner’s counsel can make when they are not permitted to allude to the event which forms the basis and substance of the article of which complaint is made, it were not easy to conjecture. In England, popular feeling is being stirred up by Lord Palmerston’s new Alien bill. There can be no question but in this instance Mr. Roe- buck and Mr. Kinglake more truly express the sentiment of Great Britain than Lord Palmer- ston and his colleagues; and that a large ma- ‘ority of the people of Englaed are decidedly opposed to yielding any portion of the right of asylum by opening the door to Louis Napo- leon’s police in England. The bill has been in- troduced and the great fight will in all proba- bility take place on the second reading in Par- liament. It is likely that very sharp speeches will be made about the late progress of despot- ism in France. These will naturally croes the channel, and co-operating with the anti-British feeling which is inherent tn Frenchmen, will provoke much bad blood in Paris and among thearmy. Meanwhile each day is convincing the French Emperor more strongly than the previous one that his dynasty cannot be secure aad despotic so long as the free press of Eng- land endures. The Alien bill may be only an entering wedge, to be followed up by an appli- cetion for a new press law; by which time the prospect of a war would be near enough to count upon, ReEGvLARs Np Innnaviars—Wattcn are Best? —The statistics of the Mexican war, published by Congress, (Doc. 24, H. of R., 31st Congress, Ist eess.,) furnish the following startling facts: The old regular establishment of the army, with an aggregate of 15,736 men, in twenty-six months service during that war lost by dis- charges for disability, 1,782 men; by ordinary deaths, 2,623 men; and by deaths from wounds in battle, 792. The additional regular force raised for the war, with an aggregate of 11,186 men, during fifteen moathe service lost by discharges for disability, 767 men; by ordinary deaths, 2,001 men; and by deaths from wounds in battle, 143 men. The voluntecrs, with an aggregate of 73,523 men, during an average of ten months service lost by discharges for disability, 7;200 men; by ordivary deaths, 6,256 men; and by deaths from wounds in battle, 613 men. The number of men wounded in battle wore reepectively—in the old establishment, 1,803; in the additional regular force, 272; and in the volunteers, 1,318 men. The number of deserters were in the whole regular force, 2,849 men, and in the volunteers, 3,876 men. The foregoing statistics require no commen- tary to show the waste of life and money from employing volunteers; and the question may well be asked whether Congress possesses the moral right to raise such o military force, as all experience shows needlessly wastes the lives of our people, even if that body sees fit to disre- gard the cconomical consideration that when- ever the law provides for volunteers as a eubsti- tute for regulars, four or five times more of the irregular iosce is always called forth. New Movement IN THe LroisLatvrn.—We perceive that a petition has been presented to the Legi lature asking that a convention may be held to so amend th constitugfen of the State that the Legislature may be abolished al- together, and that branch of the government placed in the hands of the president and direo- tors of the Central Railroad. There iy no ne cessity for such a course. The Central Railroad officers and their lobby manage the Legislature now. The Albany Argus and Albany Evening Journal, with all their editors and hangere-on are merely organs of the Central Railroad. —_—___ ‘Tim Ormna.—\“Robort lo Diable”’ was given Inst ovoning 0 & pretty good houae, The performance waa excellent, ea usual, The Academy will now be closed until Monday, for the rehearsals of the “Huguenots,” which will be brought out on that night in grand stylo, From prosent Appearances that performance will Le attended by tho finert audience that has over been gathered together at the Academy, Mr. Freman Howt, for a long time editor aad proprie- tor of the Merchants’ Mgarine of thin city, died at his residence in Brooklyn on Tuceday evoniag Ing, Hg waa Phy four years of age. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. OIA AAA ‘The Majority Report of the House Committee on Kansas Affairs, Debate im the Senate on the Admission of Kansas, THE PLAN FOR A GENERAL BANKRUPT LAW PROCEEDINGS OF THE LRUISEATURE. The New York Harbor Master Appoint- meats Confirmed, Kee, he. Affairs at tho National Capital, THE REPORT OF THR HOUSER KANSAS COMMITTER— CALL FOR A GAUCUS OF BOUTHSKN CONGRESSMEN ke, ON KANSAS APFAIRS—FRARS FOR THE SAFETY OF THE UTAG ARMY—THR NBW BANERUPT LAW PRO. JBOT—GRBAT REJOICING AMONG THE NAVAL Ov- FICERS, BTC., ETC. Wasuryctox, March 3, 1866, The select committee of the House on tho application of Kansas for admission into the Uhion met this evening, ait ‘the membors present. A long report was presented by Mr. Stepbens, of Georgia, on the part of the majority, going into an elaborate argument of the whole question invoived, and fully endorsing the President's position aad Mesrage. The report having been read, a resolution was offered declaring that the investigation of the commities, 4g called for by the resolution of the House, was confined to matters on record. ‘The report treats first of the legitimate objects of inquiey for the committee under the resolution of their appoing- ment. These are: all laws, facts and proceedings, im rela- tion to the Lecompton constitution, bearing upon the question or propriety of the admission of Kansas under it. These, in the opinion of the commitiee, embrace— First—The law taking s sense of the people upon the expediency of calling a convention. Second—The law providing for the call of a convention in pursuance of the popular will expressed. Third—The registration of voters and the apportionment: of delegates made by Secretary Stanton. Fourth—Tho assembling of the convention at Lecompten. and their action in submitting the slavery question, the only one in controversy, to the people. Fifth—The constitution formed by the convention ae assembled. Sixth—The action of the people on the questions in submitted to vote on the 2lat of December. ‘These are all the essential fucte enibraced in the call. Perfec’ legality and regularity mark every step of the Proceedings. Why should not the State be admitted? aeks the report. The report then takes up ond answers the objections which do not arise on the face of the record. No constl- tution can be valid which is not first ratified by a popular vote. This position of Gov. Walker is shown to be un- tonable, both on principle and authority. None of the constitutions of the old States were thus ratified, and many of the rew have not been. The second objectioo— the want of an ensbling act—is shewn to be untenable by bumercus precedents, the case of California in particular. Another objection is as to the fairness of the registry and apportionment. Thisis fully answered. Thereare thirty- eight counties in Kansas, twenty-one of which were represented. Thirteen of the others have little or mo population. In these thirteen, on the 4th of January elec- tion, there was less than one hundred votes cast against tho constitution, The four others had no registry, be- canse the officers were not permitted to make it, They were driven away by force and threats. The report ignores the votes of the 4th of January, although arguing that a fair interpretation of that vote, upon the basis of apportionment made by Secretary Stan- ton, would show that the constitution had not been de- feated even then. ‘The report is very elaborate, and covers all the points, and closes with an urgent argument for the admission of Kaneas as recommended by the President. This is urged as Dest for Kansas as well as the peace and harmony of the whole Union. ‘The report and resolution were carried by a vote of eight to seven. The Committee adjourned sine dic, with the wndorstand- ing that Mr. Stepnens would not present his report to the House for a fow aayn, allowing the minority time to pre- paro theirs. It ie understood there will be two minority reports, aa in tne Senate—one from the Douglas republicans and the other from ‘ue biack republicans. The House will proba- bly awal’ uh» action of the Senate. The report of the Select Committee is, therefore, only important as an ea- dorsement of the President. Of course no additional light is thrown upon the subject, for the public have already ‘been placed in purscesion of all the facts. A caucus of Soutb-ra members of Coagress will be held to-morrow morning, at the Capitol, for the purpose of eon- ferring togethor upon Kansas affairs. There is & e heme concocted among Northera membere of the House of Representatives to delay the admission of Kansas, when the Seante bill may go bofore thom, by an amendment to admit Minnesota alone, This would have the effect, so much deeirod by those who wish to kev ap the excitement for political purposes, of sending the bill back to the Senate, and by that moam prolong the discussion and agitation. Some thirty-fivo citizens from Kansas called in a body upon the President today. They assured him that the admission of Kansaz, with tho Lecompton constitution, would give peace to that Territory, and expressed the hope that Curgresa would admit Kansas into the Union of ‘States without delay. Mr. Match this evening received a despatch stating that Buffalo Las gone largely in favor of the administration in the election which came off there to-day. Officers of the army, now in Washington, who undor- stand the nature of the country where the army of Utah Testa, and through which it bas to march, as well as the charactor of the Mermong, express great fears for the men out there unless they be reinforced. Geoeral Harney and other officers are at the War Department daily, and urge the tending out of sufficient reinforcements immediately. If this be net done the fate of our little army in passing through the narrow and @ep passes, from Fort Bridger to Salt Lake City, may be like that of the British army in the Kyder Maas, in India, some years ago. There is great rejoicing to-night in Washington among the unfortanate naval officers who fell under the ban of the late Naval Board, on account of tho triumphaat pas- sage to day in the House of the joint resolution of Congres authorizing the Prosident to examine the recorda of the cases of officers before the late naval Courts of Inquiry in which the officers baye pot been recommended for resto- Tation to the service, and in such casos where he ia of opinion that justico haa not been dong to nominate them to be restored with full rank and pay as if euch officers bad never boen dirplaced by the Naval Board. Senator Toombs, from the Committee on the Judiciary, ‘will te: morrow give netice of a bill for a gencral and uni- form system of bankruptey throughout the United Stator, for the protection of croditors, the relief of insolvent debtors, and to regulate the commercial intercourse of the citizens of different States, includirg banks and all corporations; and as near asl oan now ascertain it will contain beth voluntary and involuntary bankruptey, and Will compel both individuals and corporations to pay their debts or become bankrupt. There can be no more sus- pension of specie payments by tho banks. It will no doubt provide with care against all frauds or preferences, ‘and compel an honost division of all the bankrupt's pro- perty among the creditors, The moasuro is decidediz opular hore, and all agree it is in the vory beet hands for its ruccese. It is regarded as of great interest heros and may take the piace of shrieking Kansas in the Sonate. Tho fight over the Chicago Postmastor ty suspended, awaiting official dooumente, which have been vent for. It ie understood Mr. Cook's charactor has been fully aus. tained, Mr. Dowglas threatens to publieh bis remarks if Cook is confirme:, which he undoubtedly will be. ‘The General Land (Office has received from the Surveyor Genoral the undermentioned approved township plats of eurveys in Washington Territory, viz—Townahipe three, four and five, north of range two; \ownships two, three, four and five, north of range three, and township two, north of rango four—all oastof the Willamette meridian, and containing upwards of one hundred and forty thou. sand acres. By the last mail there has been received from the Surveyor General of California a plat of the ran. cho ‘El Corte de Madera,’ finally confirmed to Maximo Martines, situated in townships eix and seven, south of range three, and townships six and seven, south of range four, of the Mount Diablo mwidian, and containing thir. (eon thousand three bund: and sixteen sores. There will bo transmitied by the «xt mail to California paventa